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StopSylvia email: "What you resists persists"

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Received this email at StopSylvia, with the subject "What you resists persists":

Mother Teresa once said that she would never attend an Anti-War rally. However she would attend a peace rally.


Whatever you give your attention to, you bring more of that about. Whether you feel good or bad about.


When you talk about Sylvia, you are bringing energy to her. If you don't like her, don't think about her. Focus your attention on what you do want.
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Here is my reply:

Ms. [name]:


Many thanks for writing.

While I understand the spirit of your email, I must disagree.

First, to address your Mother Theresa point: my site is less an "Anti-Sylvia" site than it is a "Pro-evidence" site.

The fact that the evidence pretty conclusively shows that there are far more reasons to doubt her purported abilities than there are to believe in them makes the site, overall, "Anti-Sylvia", but that is only because the evidence - the FACTS - are "Anti-Sylvia".

Second, ignoring something destructive in the name of "not giving it energy" simply allows it to flourish. To paraphrase a famous quote: "All that it takes for evil to grow is for good people to do nothing."

Put another way, should a doctor not tell a patient that the patient has a deadly disease, because to do so would be "giving energy" to the disease? Should a traffic cop not try to stop someone who is driving the wrong way down a one-way street, because doing so would be to "give energy" to...something?

Best,


Robert S. Lancaster

Founder and Webmaster,
www.StopSylvia.com
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Ms. [name] should take up counseling parents of missing children. "If you don't like the fact that a strange man has kidnapped your daughter and has her chained up in his basement, don't think about him. Thinking about him is only giving him energy."
 
As I believe I may have mentioned once or twice in the past, I think you're brilliant and your 'man-to-man marking' of SB (there's an anagram there...) with dispassionate collation of evidence is exemplary. But (could you sense that coming?) your site is called "Stop Sylvia", which is definitely a bit more anti-Sylvia than pro-evidence. Not that that validates anything Ms. [name] had to say, nor invalidates anything about your reply or the site.
 
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Yes, Jiggery, there are some problems with the site's name.

For one thing, it implies that I had made up my mind about Browne BEFORE I had examined the evidence (since the site was named that from the beginning, long before most (if not all) of the articles were written.

But I HAD examined enough evidence to be pretty confident that Browne was a fraud, and so I was comfortable in creating a site examining the evidence about her.

It has also been suggested that a less judgemental/opinionated name for the site would have been more appropriate. I considered "The Truth About Sylvia Browne" (echoing the title of Randi's book "The Truth About Uri Gellar") and similar names, but they struck me as a bit...coy. I thought that "Stop Sylvia Browne" was straightforward and honest (nobody could contend that I had a "hidden agenda", for one thing).

I also felt that it was short, declarative and memorable (all good things in a site name and a domain name), and would be the kind of name that would encourage mention by the media.

Finally, it continued the Stop "meme" I had inadvertently begun with my "Stop Kaz" site - that of an even-handed, low-key, evidence-based examination of the statements and behaviors of an individual whose career of deception I wanted STOPPED.

And the concept seems to have had enough of an impact that it has been emulated (though sometimes in naming only) by others, leading to sites such as "Stop Jenny", "Stop VisionFromFeeling", "Stop Robbie (something)" (a Canadian "psychic") and, of course, mushy's "Stop Robert S. Lancaster" blog.

All in all, for all its drawbacks, I think I made the right call in naming the site.

But thanks!
 
We corresponded back and forth a few times, and then I received this from him/her:

ok. Hate Sylvia.


But ponder this...
:


See this world as a free world, and see everyone in it as trying—through their individual experiences—to find their way back to that calling, back to that Source Energy. And even though there are billions of them going about it in a way that is different than you would choose, there's no right or wrong way. In other words, bless them all, and get on with the only thing you have any power about, which is opening or closing your vortex to your natural state of Well-Being.
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I replied with something along these lines

So, there is no right or wrong way to go through life?

If you found that your neighbor was molesting your child, would you simply think "Oh well, that's just my neighbor's way of going through life, it's not right nor wrong!", or would you take steps to remedy the situation?
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So there's no right or wrong way to live, and yet she's initially emailed you to tell you that your way was wrong?
 
That person is really bothered. Why should she/he care so much what someone else thinks of Sylvia, especially since she/he professes to believe that any "negativity" only can be good for Sylvia?
 
People don't understand what is meant by "Energy".

You cynics mean taudry stuff like kinetic and chemical potential energy.

Here, the writer is talking about (Here you have to imagine an intake of breath, and an exressive gesture with open hands showing a "Radiating" from the chest area) AHENERGY.

This type of energy is....well...it's... whatever some loon wants it to be......
 
RSLancastr said:
Finally, it continued the Stop "meme" I had inadvertently begun with my "Stop Kaz" site - that of an even-handed, low-key, evidence-based examination of the statements and behaviors of an individual whose career of deception I wanted STOPPED.

And the concept seems to have had enough of an impact that it has been emulated (though sometimes in naming only) by others, leading to sites such as "Stop Jenny", "Stop VisionFromFeeling", "Stop Robbie (something)" (a Canadian "psychic") and, of course, mushy's "Stop Robert S. Lancaster" blog.
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Not to mention Stop the Australian (Anti)Vaccination Network.
 
After a few more emails back and forth, I sent the following:

I also note that, although you seem to be saying that there is no right nor wrong way to go through life, and that we should not criticise others for the way they choose to go through THEIR lives, you also seem in the same breath to be criticising the way I have chosen to go through MINE.

-Robert
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...to which they replied:

Robert,

My point is that when you are in a vibration of negativity then you beget negativity in your life. What ever you're offering, you're receiving.


And I do see your point! I noticed that! I questioned myself why I was doing this. I guess I just wanted to point out that pushing against something brings it more to you. Sometimes people don't realize this.


My intention is not to criticize you. I just really want to see the evolution of this planet going in a positive way. Exposing you to a new thought about yourself may spark a change into a loving place. That's all.


I do believe there should be a website for child molesters to alert people. If someone is hurting a child, YES, something should be done. That person should be taken out but not thrown away. Have you ever heard of a child molester with a stellar childhood? So many people are hurting inside they do horrible things. I would say the same for most of the prison population.


I just don't see Sylvia being on par with a child molester. If what you say is true about her, it is a waste of your energy to spend it hating her. Since you can build a website, create an site for authentic psychics. That is going to a more positive place. The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference.


[name]
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...to which I replied:

[name]:

Thanks for the advice.

I truly do appreciate that you are trying to help, but I just do not agree with what you say.

First, I do not agree with the premise of "when you are in a vibration of negativity then you beget negativity in your life." I have heard this many times, in various words, but it has always struck me as one of those ultimately meaningless things peopele like to say because it sounds "deep" to them (or because it resonates with them).

Second, I do not in the slightest feel that what I have done with my "Stop Sylvia Browne" web site is "negativity". I have simply taken the evidence about her and made it easily and publicly accessible to all interested parties, and I invite those parties to consider that evidence and to come to their own conclusion on the subject.

I have received many emails over the years from people thanking me for opening their eyes, and for giving them the evidence they needed to keep them from spending hundreds of dollars they could ill-afford on a "phone reading" with a woman who is most likely nothing more than a greedy con artist.

And, to me, that is a POSITIVE thing. a VERY positive thing indeed.

Again, thanks for writing.

Warm regards,

Robert S. Lancaster
Founder & Webmaster,
www.StopSylvia.com
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RSLancastr said:
After a few more emails back and forth, I sent the following:



...to which they replied:



...to which I replied:
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I have looked at your site but have not read everything on it.

Based upon what I did see, I think what you have done, with regard to Sylvia Browne specifically, is a positive thing.

You are helping to educate people and teach them to be critical thinkers.

Nothing negative there at all.

And in terms of "energy"... I also see positive.
 
Careful Robin1,

Now that Robert's health has improved to the point that he can update his websites, he might just feel well enough to start a site examining John Edwards' claims and predictions. I suspect it would look very much like his Sylvia Browne site with different (but equally accurate) names and dates.

Ward
 
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